Challenging Communion The Eucharist and Middle English Literature / Jennifer Garrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrison, Jennifer (Professor of English), author.

Series:

Interventions (Columbus, Ohio)

Interventions: new studies in medieval culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Lord's Supper in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages).

Place of Publication:

Columbus The Ohio State University Press 2017

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically and simplistically embracing the Eucharist, Challenging Communion: The Eucharist and Middle English Literature identifies a pervasive Middle English literary tradition that rejects simplistic notions of eucharistic promise. Through new readings of texts such as Piers Plowman, A Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery Kempe, and John Lydgate's religious poetry, Garrison shows how writers of Middle English often take advantage of the ways in which eucharistic theology itself contests the boundaries between the material and the spiritual, and how these writers challenge the eucharistic idea of union between Christ and the community of believers.

Contents:

Resisting the fantasy of identification in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne

Devotional submission and the Pearl-poet

Christ's allegorical bodies and the failure of community in Piers Plowman

Julian of Norwich's Allegory and the mediation of salvation

The willful surrender of eucharistic reading in Nicholas Love and Margery Kempe

John Lydgate and the eucharistic poetic tradition: the making of community

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814274637

0814274633

9780814274620

0814274625

OCLC:

1103698145

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access